"What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?"

"For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart."

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."

"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."

"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."

"And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?"

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."

"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."

"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."

"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes."

"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable."

"In much of your talking thinking is half murdered."

"That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart."

"When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

"The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind."

"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."

"For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."

"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by it's own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."

"For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain."

"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."

"For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?"

"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."

"It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it."

"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."

"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings."

"Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant."

"An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper."

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered."

"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."

"You are good when you strive to give of yourself."

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy."

"You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness."

"Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to work with love ?it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth .It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house .It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit .He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil."

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."

"You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

"Self is a sea boundless and measureless."

"I loved him not, yet I did not hate Him. I listened to Him not to hear His words but rather he sound of His voice; for His voice pleased me. All that He said was vague to my mind, but the music thereof was clear to my ear. Indeed were it not for what others have said to me of His teaching, I should not have known even so much as whether He was with Judea or against it."

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."

"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."

"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees."

"Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense, but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."

"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."

"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."